The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25
SUMMERTNG AT OAK VIEW
HAPPY RUSTIC LIFE OF THE PRESI-
DENTAL FAMILY.

Relief from the Social Duties Incident
to Life at the White House a Great
Luxury-Talk About a New Hotel
Again Heard.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Presidential
family has already gone into summer quar-
tiers at Oak View, the Presidents country
home, over which Mrs Folsom has presided
for several months past. Even the White
House chef, NJ, Perrin, has left the stately
mansion for the less palatial but more lively
gastronomic department of a fashionable
hotel, soon to open at one of the popu-
lar summer resorts. The culinary regions
are, in the meantime, in charge Of
an unpretentious family cook who will en-
deavor to see that the President does not
go hungry when he dimes at the White
House from time to time during the season.
All social entertainment at the Executive
mansion, even informal dlawing-rOoms or
sat homes" have ceased, so that for the next
six months, should Congress be called in
October, or otherwise eight months, al
most the entire time of the Presi-
dent, except when engaged in his
official duties, Will be passed at his country
seat. Despite all the stories afloat detailing
the trips he is to make during the summer
and fall, the President, as matter of fact
has Uldue no arrangements LOT JHe summer
except to remain quietly in Washington,
dividing his time between his official duties
and leisure hours at Oak View. It's not i'm
probable that he will make trip late in the
summer OF early in the fall to the North
west, but there is no authority for saying
even that as yet, as his present thoughts are
wholly wrapped up in the peaceful life and
happy household in the modernized old
farmhouse i'll the picturesque hills over
looking the capital. Mrs. Cleveland is in
her glory in the country, and is often seen
by people driving along the road, or out
among her flower beds with her face shaded
by large-brimmed sun hat and her hands
incased in pair of garden gloves
Mrs. Cleveland undoubtedly feels
that she has earned a good long
rest, and is taking solid comfort out Of
the peaceful surroundings of her country
home with her mother. She is passionately
fond of flowers, and during the winter
gratified her taste for them with daily visits
to the White House Conservatives. AT
'Oak View" she takes much interest in the
arrangement of the grounds around the
house, and in experimenting the gardeners
in planting tulips and crocuseS and getting
the flower beds ready for the summer
growth of Towering and foliage plants
The President has not had much experience
in the line of bucolic pursuits, but be enjoys
the surroundings of country scenes and the
pleasure of watching the daily changing
processes of vegetable growth and panorama
of landscape effects from the high point of
vision occupied by his rural retreat. Mrs
Cleveland also finds delight in the relief
from social duties afforded by her
country retreat. At the White House
she was under the almost incessant liability
of being obliged to entertain callers. While
at Oak View she has declined to see a great
many callers, which caused some hard feel
ings by a few who misunderstood the Presi-
private residence Desiring to have the
public start right with Oak View, and to
have it understood that it is not an official
residence, it has been necessary for
protection to do something to indicate that
if was really intended for a retreat.
AT the White House there is scarcely an
hour, night or day, in which some one does
not appear with an out-of-town friend who
wished to pay his respects before leaving the
city. The extent to which this good-natured
but still exhausting attention has been car
ried cannot be appreciated by those who
have not seen it. These well meant inten-
lions even followed Mrs. Cleveland to Oak
View, but they have been uniformly and
courteously declined The result is
that she is already recovered from much of
the WEAKNESS entailed by these duties at the
White House, and is in much better health
and spirits than when the social season for
mally closed at the beginning of Lent.
CONGRESSMAN DAN ENPOKTS MARRIAGE.
Congressman Ira Davenport, of New
York, is to marry Miss Kitty Sharpe of
Kingston, on April "a Kingston is pretty
little town on the east side OF the Hudson
river nearly half way between Albany and
New York, and Miss Sharpe has long been
looked upon as the belle not only of her own
town, but as young lady of great popu-
larity in New York city and Albany as
well. Congressman Davenport will be re-
lnembered as the unsuccessful candidate for
Governor of New York in 1885 Previous
TO his gubernatorial candidacy, however,
Mr.. Davenport had filled the State Comp
trollership for two or three terms, and was
widely known and popular. in
the political and social circles
of his State He is good looking bachelor,
just turning 45, and the possessor of hand
some estate which he inherited at the death
of his father. Having been reelected to the
coming Congress, and being favored with
an appendage in the shape of "a society-lov-
ing bride, he may be counted on to take o
prominent part in the gaieties of the next
season at the national capital. Mr.. Daven-
port is a gentleman of irreproachable life,
and has kept house during his two winters
here in Lieut.. T. b NJ. Mason's handsome
residence, near Mr.. Blaine's. No lady rcla-
tive has chaperoned his establishment. and
his Inequalities have been restricted to din
her parties to his Senatorial friends and
brother members. These have been elegant
affairs, and are the only way in
which he has asserted himself as a
positive force at Washington. The
marriage ceremony will be performed
in an old historic Dutch church. where the
sons and daughters of the Hollanders sit and
listen to the preaching of Rev. DR.. Van
Slyke, who will officiate on the occasion.
The arrangements, as perfected so far, indi-
cate that there will be many unique features
attending the marriage, one of which will
be that the prospective Mrs. Davenport
will hold a reception all day long. Miss
Sharpe and her parents were friends of the
late President Arthur and We're several times
guests at the White House when Mrs Nc
Elroy was its presiding genius.
DOWNFALL OF AN EX-CoNGREssMAN
Washington may truly be said to be tho
pitfall of many brilliant men, night or
two ago, when the avenue was filed with
the youth of Washington in all their glory
and spring dresses and everything seemed
calm and serene, small, but rotund man.
with n round, smoothly-shaven face. that.
ut a distance, looked like Bob Ingersolls.
stood in the middle of the roadway right
opposite Wizards so dazed by liquor that
he seemed unconscious of where he was.
One of the hangers-on who decorate this
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